Highly unusual lightning phenomenon in the USA - 2013

You probably haven't realized it - but the lightning has several unusual characteristics these days in the United States:

1. Orange lightning. That's weird. Never saw that before.

2. Unusually powerful lightning. It rattled my house for 10 seconds

3. LIghtning in the middle of the day, with the Sun out - concentrated in a region nearby.

That's strange. Something's changed - local warming undoubtedly. Excess gasoline combustion. The United States reached peak oil production in the 1970s - its production has gone steadily downhill since then. That's a lot of gasoline that was combusted. And it consumes 25% of the world's oil production, despite having only 4.4% of its population. Also, more seriously, the world has reached peak oil production. Despite massive efforts at increasing it, oil production has remained constant since 2007. And the world's population continues to increase at a steady rate.

Re: Highly unusual lightning phenomenon in the USA - 2013

You probably haven't realized it - but the lightning has several unusual characteristics these days in the United States:

1. Orange lightning. That's weird. Never saw that before.

2. Unusually powerful lightning. It rattled my house for 10 seconds

3. LIghtning in the middle of the day, with the Sun out - concentrated in a region nearby.

That's strange. Something's changed - local warming undoubtedly. Excess gasoline combustion. The United States reached peak oil production in the 1970s - its production has gone steadily downhill since then. That's a lot of gasoline that was combusted. And it consumes 25% of the world's oil production, despite having only 4.4% of its population. Also, more seriously, the world has reached peak oil production. Despite massive efforts at increasing it, oil production has remained constant since 2007. And the world's population continues to increase at a steady rate.

Happened to my parents in Florida. It was a sunny day with no clouds in the sky. They and thier friends were talking when a lighting bolt hit right above thier heads and did a loud boom and crack. They were all inside in seconds.